Saturday Night Scare2/22/2009 9:02:33 AMIt was just a knock at the door. . . Dinner was on the table (seafood scampi) when our bells (not a door bell, regular bells) rang that someone was on our porch.

Since my husband had done all the cooking, I said, "I'll get it."

A stocky twenty-something man (looked like the starting center for a pro football team) and a very skinny Latino girl stood there.

They said they were neighbors, doing fund raising for autistic children. They said they would wash my car (it was raining).

I told them I couldn't help them until after the first of the month.

The man said, "Can I use your bathroom?"

That's when I got suspicious and scared. If he's a neighbor, why does he need my bathroom. I said no, they went away.

I later contacted my neighbors, all had been visited by the pair, and all had been asked for something else like to borrow an umbrella.

This indicates to me that they wanted the person to walk away from the door or to let them in.

Casing houses for burglary? What do you think? We live north of LA and it's normally a very safe neighborhood. This episode gave me the creeps and I didn't sleep well.